Job 38:10

“And brake up for it my decreed [place], etc.] Or, as Mr. Broughton translates it, “and brake the earth for it by my decree”: made a vast chasm in the earth to hold the waters of the sea, which was provided as a sort of cradle to put this swaddled infant in; God cleaved the earth, raised the hills and sank the valleys, which became as channels to convey the waters that ran off the earth to their appointed place, which beautifully expressed in (<19A407>Psalm 104:7,8); and refers there, as here, to the work of creation on the second day, (<010109>Genesis 1:9,10) f1302; and set bars and doors; to keep it in its decreed appointed place, that the waters might not go over the earth; these are the…”

“brake up for--that is, appointed it. Shores are generally broken and abrupt cliffs. The Greek for "shore" means "a broken place." I broke off or measured off for it my limit, that is, the limit which I thought fit (Job 26:10).”

“And brake up for it my decreed place - Margin, “established my decree upon it.” So Herder, “I fixed my decrees upon it.” Luther renders it, “Da ich ihm den Lauf brach mit meinem Damm” - “then I broke its course with my barrier.” Umbreit renders it, “I measured out to it my limits;” that is, the limits or bounds which I judged to be proper. So the Vulgate, “Circumdedi illud terminis meis” - “I surrounded it with my limits,” or with such limits as I chose to affix. The Septuagint renders it, “I placed boundaries to it.” Coverdale, “I gave it my commandment.” This is undoubtedly the sense which: the connection demands; and the idea in the common version, that God had broken up his fixed plans…”

“Break up - Made those hollow places in the earth, which might serve for a cradle to receive and hold this great and goodly infant when it came out of the womb. And set - Fixed its bounds as strongly as if they were fortified with bars and doors. Job 38:12”

“38:10-11 locked it behind barred gates: The sea is depicted as a dangerous creature kept under control.”

“brake up for it my decreed place: or, established my decree upon it, Job 26:10; Gen 1:9, Gen 1:10, Gen 9:15; Psa 104:9; Jer 5:22 Job 38:11”